If men can be women what does it matter?

So deeply dishonest. They briefly mention the fact that married men earn more because the WORK MORE. But they implied that even that is unfair. None of the difference has to do with sexism.

There’s no way for something that doesn’t exist to “change.” There is no “gender pay gap.” There is a gender _earnings_ gap, and it’s never going away, because men and women pursue different types of jobs and work demands.

transgender gap

There’s a gap for a lot of reasons. And almost none of them are unfair. 1. Men work on average 10% more than women. (41 hours per week vs 36.3). Wouldn’t that entitle them to 10% more pay? 2. Men are more likely to ask for raises than women. Plus, who are you more likely to give the raise to? The person who needs to leave an hour early every day to pick the kids up from school? Or the person who stays an hour late to finish a project for you? 3. Men and women DO choose different fields. And on average the fields that men go into just pay more than the fields women go to. 4. Men are more likely to move states or cities to chase a higher paying job. 5. Men are more likely to put up with hazardous working conditions. These are just a few of the reasons. There’s at least 6 more that all tie into it. One of which being that SOME women are ILLEGALLY paid less than men for doing the same job. But. Emphasis on the ILLEGALLY part of that. We’ve already addressed that. You’re not going to completely stop that from happening. The best you can hope for is to hold people accountable for doing it. And it also only accounts for a very small percentage of the disparity. We’re talking less than 1% of that 18 cent difference.

The gender gap hasn't changed and will never change because men and women are interested in different things.

"For doing the exact same job" Ummm....no. She's being deceitful there. When men and women do the exact same job and work the exact same hours, they get paid the exact same on average. The difference is, men are working longer hours and taking on more overtime even when they work the "exact same job". The "wage gap" doesn't account for this. She's also comparing apples to oranges. The study she's talking about compared male doctors to female doctors, male lawyers to female lawyers, etc. What she failed to mention, was that just because a man and a woman are both doctors, doesn't mean they're doing the same job. Same with law. Men tend to seek out the fields within medicine that pay more. Men are also more likely to pursue law firms that specialize in higher paying fields of law.

The fatherhood "premium" the fact that a father has to constantly work overtime to allow the mother to stay home with the kids is a premium? How about we switch roles I stay home with the kids and tell the wife to work for two people. Think that will fly?

With VA finally ratifying the ERA, enough states have ratified to adopt it as a constitutional amendment IF congress would vote to extend the deadline for ratification which has expired. The ERA could help with the gender pay gap problem. Women should lobby for this.

Isn’t the fact that the pay gab is a myth common knowledge

and wage stagnation has nothing to do with it...? SMH

To any and all of you who keep hocking this 1,000 times over debunked “gender pay gap” narrative: Can any of you cite one instance in which a woman with the same amount of experience, the same amount of seniority at the company, working the _exact_ same job at the same number of hours as a man is getting paid less than he is?

@turinturambar347

10 ай бұрын

I'm sure there are a lot of women who could anecdotally say this. But there's also men out there who could anecdotally say the same. The difference is when it happens to women they assume it's because they're a woman. All that really matters is the statistics, and the statistics say the wage gap doesn't exist.

@davidpar2

5 ай бұрын

@@turinturambar347well that, plus the fact that there’s no such thing as “proving a negative.” No such thing as a “burden” of “disproving” a claim that’s already been debunked over and over and over again

I remember working for a company where it was explicitly stated in the orientation packet that you could not discuss how much you made with other co-workers. Obviously, the companies are in on the scam. But maybe the shift in pay transparency will improve this issue in the years going forward.

@turinturambar347

10 ай бұрын

It won't really fix it. Think about it. You're a woman, right? I'm going to assume you're hetero or are attracted to men. Think about what it is that you're attracted to in men. Maybe this won't be the case for you, but for many women it is a man's financial standing and status that women are attracted to. Women are also attracted to men with ambition. Which really just means he's likely to make a lot of money down the road. You know how many men are attracted to women with those attributes? Very few. Don't get me wrong, men aren't UNATTRACTED to women who have money or ambition. It's just a benign trait. For the most part, men neither like or dislike it. Instead, men tend to be much more focused on physical appearance in a partner than women are. If you have two women with similar personalities but one is more physically attractive and the other makes more money, men will tend to go for the one who is more physically attractive. Now, if they're both equally attractive and have similar personalities, maybe the guy will go for the one with more money, but my point is, a woman's financial status is way down the line of things a man is attracted to. Most men are perfectly willing to support a woman if they have the financial means, or they're willing to live a less lucrative lifestyle if it's with a woman they are attracted to. But the inverse is rarely true for women. Very few women are willing to support a man financially or to settle for a more difficult life financially for a man. Maybe if they meet him and fall in love first then it would matter less, but we live in a world where we judge the person first based on these many attributes before we even get to know them. So the only way it really happens is when they meet the man, fall in love, then his career collapses and he goes from making good money to "not good" money. But even in those situations, statistics show the woman is more than 80% likely to file for a divorce after a man falls on financial troubles. As a man, I learned from a young age that women only liked you if you could provide resources for them. I was a tall, well built guy who played football, so I got a fair amount of women who would pursue me for physical reasons, but that was all it would be. When I was broke, they might sleep with me when their girlfriends weren't looking, but wouldn't date me...it would have been embarassing to date a broke man. I changed things around financially and my luck changed. All men learn this lesson at a young age. Women like a man with money, and women will quickly discount you if you don't have money, regardless of how well you treat them. There's a lot of pressure on men to earn as much money as possible. The saying "my money is my money and his money is OUR money" is still a very relevant saying. So men have this pressure on their shoulders from a young age, to be as good of a provider as possible. Because of this, men have much more incentive than women to seek out higher paying careers and work longer hours to position themselves as well as possible for promotion. It's similar to the pressure women have on their shoulders to look good. Women put much more effort into their appearance because men put that pressure on them. Men put much more effort into seeking out financial resources, because women put that pressure on them. The wage gap will go away when women stop putting so much emphasis on a man's financial status when choosing a mate. I personally don't think that will ever happen, so I personally don't think the wage gap will ever disappear. It will only truly go away if we start paying women MORE for the same work than their male counterparts. But that is socialism and ad the end of the day is discriminatory in nature. And that actually has started to happen in some industries. A recent study showed that women were more than twice as likely to land a job or promotion within STEM than equally qualified male applicants. And women in all fields under the age of 35 are more likely to be given low and middle management promotions than equally qualified male counterparts. So essentially it is the young men, not the young women, who are paying for the decisions of older women to reduce their hours and give up their careers after motherhood.

Maybe when men have children, they work more because they have an instinct to provide for their families….just saying

Poor women of color. You can not compare the pay between men and women. They do different types of work.

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